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You will find that there is a lot of information available about stocking your aquarium. Some topics are maintaining adequate pH balance, balancing nitrate and phosphate levels, and so on. But you'll need to be knowledgeable about the fish, too. Choosing fish that you would like to have in your tank can be tricky. You'll need to know how big they'll grow, and whether they'll be able to get along with each other.
Here are a few facts that you'll need to be aware of when selecting fish and stocking your aquarium.
If you are a beginner, you should start with a freshwater tank, especially if children are going to participate in taking care of the fish.
Freshwater fish are less troublesome than saltwater fish to look after and, on the most part, are hardier. They are also more resilient to inferior water quality and temperature fluctuations which beginners are prone to overlook.
Granted saltwater fish are more attractive, but taking care of a saltwater tank is not that easy and should be left to the more experienced fish owner.
The choice of fish for your fish tank needs careful consideration. Randomly selecting fish from a pet store will bring you problems in the future. Some research needs to be done in regards to various types of freshwater fish and which ones can live together in harmony.
Size: Fish are usually babies when you buy them. Some of them will remain the same size, while others will grow much bigger. Bearing this in mind, you will have to choose your tank suitably. Fish don't like to be overcrowded and can die under the stress.
Diet: Keep in mind that not all fish eat the same food. Problems can arise when you have a variety of fish which require different diets. Getting fish that eat the same type of food will be easier and less expensive.
Personalities: Not all fish get along well when living together. Some are a lot more aggressive than others; therefore, you need to learn which fish are compatible with others. Some tropical fish can bully the smaller ones. Fish which are domineering can fight and nip fins of the smaller, peaceful fish. To maintain a peaceful environment in your tank, aim at buying fish that have congenial personalities.
Types of fish: When you shop for fish, it can be a lot of fun! Make sure you take the measurements of your tank and decide how much you want to spend before going to the pet store. The best part is that you will be able to buy attractive fish without breaking your budget.
Clown Loach: These colorful and lively fish prefer their own company. Buying 3 or 4 of them will keep them happy. They can grow in size from 6 to 12 inches and they like meaty food to eat. They have some very interesting traits that make them an enjoyable fish to watch. When excited or feeding, clown loaches make clicking noises by grinding their teeth. They will sometimes swim on their sides, upside down, or will lie on the bottom of the tank appearing dead.
Congo Tetra: Congo tetra fish are great for the beginner fish owner. They grow to a medium size of approximately 3 inches long and need at least 30 gallons of water for a good swimming area. Congo tetra also prefer clean water with live plants in which they can hide and swim around. Apart from this, they are easy to care for.
Elephantnose: These fish get their name from their long, trunk-like nose. They do not like overcrowding and use their noses to hunt worms and other small live food. They like a well-planted aquarium with hiding places consisting of driftwood or rocks. These fish also need gravel or sand at the bottom of the tank. They will grow to about 8 inches in length and are fairly aggressive to their own species.
Tiger Barb: Growing up to about 3 inches long, tiger barbs do well with plenty of space. They can be aggressive towards other fish and are well known to nip other fish's fins. Therefore, keeping them in schools of at least 6 fish will divert their attention as they will be too busy sorting out their own social order.
More information about caring for tropical fish and stocking your aquarium can be found in Katy's Tropical Fish—A Complete Guide. This is a complete overview for fish tank owners with any level of experience. It is an easy-to-read guide full of valuable facts for anybody interested in keeping a tropical fish aquarium.
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A lot of us here at Kickstarter are passionate book lovers, so we're always stoked to see new independent bookstores popping up and growing into community hubs. Here are six that are doing incredibly cool things.
Ancestry Books is a community bookstore dedicated to featuring books by authors of color and Indigenous authors who are under-represented in other places. It was originally envisioned as pop-up bookstore that would be run from the creators' porch over the summer, but as people started responding to the idea with excitement, Chaun Webster and Verna Wong decided to find a real storefront.
Also in Minneapolis, Boneshaker Books established itself as a radical and progressive bookstore in 2010. Do you need a book delivered by bicycle? No problem! They've done that.
In 2012, they expanded their store to include a nano-cinema, gallery, and larger children's books area.
After losing their lease in 2012, this twenty-year-old Portland institution triumphantly relaunched its bookstore and space for indie presses to share their wares. They carry a great selection of zines and small press items, and they also boast a space for art and gatherings. We're big fans of their website, too.
Michael de Zayas wanted to create a bookstore and cultural space in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to support local writers and readers — and so Hullabaloo Books was born. He also established an events series, which host adult literacy classes, teen writing workshops, and poetry readings.
This is not just a used bookstore — Books and Brews is also a nanobrewery, with beers named after classic books and literary figures. You can try their Canterbury Tales Pale Ale or Clifford the Big Red Ale while reading — another interpretation of getting lit.
The folks at Uncharted Books wanted to do more than make a bookstore — they wanted to create a haven for writers and artists (and dogs). They encourage "browsing, loitering, chit-chatting, socializing, drinking, eating, writing, working, hanging out, and staying in," which seems like pretty much every activity possible.
Wow, you guys missed an obvious one, The Last Bookstore in LA!!
I would submit perhaps entering this into your blog??
This post just highlighted indie bookstores that have used Kickstarter, and only a small portion of those. If I were to list all my favorite indie bookstores in general, it would be a MUCH longer blog post!
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As Wealthy Depart For Second Homes, Class Tensions Come To Surface In Coronavirus Crisis
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RICHMOND, RI - MARCH 29: Members of the military police set up a checkpoint at the first rest stop ... [+] after leaving Connecticut on I-95. Those traveling from the Tri-state area must stop, provide information and then self-quarantine for 14 days or face a fine.
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Topline: As New York City's coronavirus cases exploded in recent weeks, residents fleeing to second homes have come under intense scrutiny and push-back, prompting officials in multiple states to create highway checkpoints screening for New Yorkers and a national travel advisory for the entire Tri-state area, highlighting the dramatic roles class and wealth will play in the pandemic.
With over 56,000 coronavirus cases in New York, privileged New Yorkers with secondary homes are fleeing the City with massive effect on vacation home communities: the population of Southampton has gone from 60,000 a few weeks ago to 100,000 and rental prices in Hudson Valley rocketed from $4,000 to $18,000 per month—posing a threat to small-town hospitals that are ill-equipped to handle caring for high numbers of coronavirus patients.
In wealthy New England island communities like Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and Block Island that are heavy with secondary homes and short on hospital infrastructure, officials are going so far as to cancel all hotel, Airbnb and VRBO reservations while stationing state troopers and the National Guard to maintain flow on islands and, in the case of Rhode Island, instating 14 day mandatory quarantine on all people traveling to stay in the state from New York, New Jersey or Connecticut.
As outrage has grown at the privileged fleeing the city while middle and working classes remain confined in New York City apartments, there's been social media clapback at ostentatious displays of wealth in isolation: Geffen Records and Dreamworks Billionaire David Geffen ultimately deleted his Instagram of his $570 million megayacht captioned: "Sunset last night..isolated in the Grenadines avoiding the virus. I'm hoping everybody is staying safe" after it sparked outrage on social media.
New York City's poorer boroughs are hit hardest by coronavirus: Brooklyn and Queens, where median income is $56,015 and $64,987, respectively, remain the epicenter of COVID-19, compared to Manhattan with average income of $82,459, which has been less permeated by the virus and is home to many of Manhattan's wealthiest enclaves—and those most likely to have residents with second homes elsewhere.
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On Saturday, President Trump said he was considering quarantining parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, then, backed down and issued a domestic travel advisory for the tristate area that discourages residents of these states from non-essential domestic travel after "very intensive discussions" at the White House on Saturday night, said Dr. Anthony Fauci on CNN today: "The better way to do this would be an advisory as opposed to a very strict quarantine, and the President agreed."
"Due to our very limited health care infrastructure, please do not visit us now," reads a travel advisory from Lake Superior's Cook County in Michigan, exemplifying vacation towns' plea to travelers and second home owners across the country to stay away.
Background: Coronavirus cases in the United States have skyrocketed to 124,000, with deaths doubling from 1,000 to 2,046 in two days. Since those with COVID-19 can be asymptomatic for days, their presence in remote communities may be deadly, as they can spread the virus and wreak havoc on rural hospitals. The clash between wealthy and poor, also creates state-versus-state hostility, as federal support is limited and essential to states overcoming coronavirus.
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June 19, 2018 /in Events /by Brie Morrow
Don't miss the chance to own a one-of-a-kind custom bike! The auction is now live here!
The Republic of Texas Biker Rally teamed up with Biker Pros and Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys to bring together father/daughter duos for the first annual Daughters of Custom Build Off. Each team were given $5k and three months to build their one-of-a-kind bikes. All three bikes were unveiled June 9th at the Rally, with one being given to a veteran.
The other two bikes are now being auctioned! The combined total of the proceeds will be split and given to two charities, Patriot Warrior Foundation and Fisher House Foundation to support veterans, the military and their families.
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Bids submitted between the hours of 5:30 PM & 8:30 AM ET will still be considered, w/ the highest bid being added at 8:30 AM ET.
Auction will run: 6/19/18 – 7/10/18.
At the end of the auction, highest bidders will be contacted. If a bidder withdraws, the next highest bidder will be selected & so on.
The combined total of the proceeds will be split and given to two charities, Patriot Warrior Foundation and Fisher House Foundation to support veterans, the military, and their families.
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Are you looking to retire soon? Maybe you have a friend or family member that is about to take on this journey in their life? Whatever the case may be, you need to be properly prepared so that when that time comes, you make the most of these years. Here is some information that will be of assistance.
An obvious tip in regards to retiring is to make sure you start saving for your retirement. A lot of people make the mistake of not saving for their retirement and then find themselves in a bit of a pickle because they don't have adequate funds available to them when they're older.
Consider opting into a health plan for the long haul. Health tends to get worse over time. Long term health care is very expensive. Long term health plans help alleviate the strain of increase costs.
If you've always wanted to be more politically active in life, but simply never had the time, do so in your golden years. The 65+ voting group has become quite a force, and you could have fun expressing your political opinions. Look online or sign up for a local group, and let your voice finally be heard!
Keep your mind sharp by challenging yourself with puzzles and games. This is a good way to exercise your brain cells. You can find all types of puzzles online. Crossword puzzles and word searches are popular, and they range from the simple to the very complex. Do a few puzzles everyday and exercise your brain.
You may want to consider starting a small business at retirement age. You can start a small business that you always dreamed of. This can save you money and allow you to keep active.
Don't burn any bridges in your career as you face retirement, because situations can change quickly! While it may feel good to tell your boss how you've really felt about him all these years, you may need to go back to work part-time and will want good references. Think first before you sign-off on opportunities.
If you want to save money during your retirement years, you can downsize. Even if you're not someone with a mortgage, you will still have expenses to pay, like your electricity and landscaping. Think about relocating to a home that's smaller. This will save you a lot of money in the future.
It is important that you pay attention to your investments before retirement. Are they making you as much as you need them to? There are so many options for your money that you should check into them every single year. You can even hire someone to help you manage your portfolio.
Estate planning should never be neglected. It includes preparing a will, getting a living will executed and designating personal representatives. This is very important if you were to lose your life or become incapacitated.
As this article has proven to you, a big part of retirement is preparing yourself as far in advance as you can. Whether you plan on retiring soon or you have a loved one who will be doing so, it is a good thing you read this article. You now know how to make the retirement years an enjoyable time.


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Serving the Drug Addicts of Utah, One Syringe at a Time
By Nat Roe and Libby Coleman
Because she has stood out in the cold for months to try to help drug addicts.
In this occasional series, OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: "How was your day?"
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We are running up to the store to get some brown paper bags for the exchange — I didn't know we were running low. We don't like to just hand people all their supplies, especially because almost all of them are homeless. They don't really have a place to keep them. Having a little brown bag makes it easier.
People bring their dirty syringes to us; if they don't have any, we will still give them however many syringes they need. We give them clean syringes, we give them tourniquets, alcohol swabs, first-aid kits if we have them, naloxone if we have them. All the things that it takes — they're called works — all of those works for people to be able to inject drugs safely. We have a white tent, set it up, and we're ready to go. We're out there for two hours usually, but we won't leave when people still need to be served. We set up on the block where the homeless shelter is. It's a high drug use area. People are regularly seen dealing drugs and doing drugs on the street. That seemed like the most logical place to start. The homeless are the people with the least amount of access to resources and little if any money to buy anything, even syringes. Everything to get the organization up and running at first came out of my pocket.
When people think about Utah, they think … nobody uses drugs and nobody smokes — but that's just not what's going on here.
The syringe exchange has been up and running in Utah for almost two months. I was surprised at how quickly people warmed up to us. When people think about Utah, they think about this beautiful, promised land where people don't swear and they don't drink coffee and nobody uses drugs and nobody smokes — but that's just not what's going on here.
I'm originally from Bear Lake, Idaho, but I've lived in Utah since I was 3. I was raised Latter-day Saint, as most people here are. That had a big impact on my life and on me becoming disconnected from my family.
My dad worked for the Salt Lake City Corporation. My mom was a stay-at-home mom until she and my dad divorced when I was 7. Then my mom was sort of out of the picture. I was a very wild child; I started smoking cigarettes when I was, like, 7. When I was 12, my stepmom kicked me out of the house, and I went to live with my mom, who was alcoholic. I didn't have a lot of adult supervision. One thing led to another, and I started using meth. My family tended to believe the answer was in religion. That didn't do it for me. In fact, for me, religion pushed me further into using. By the time I was 15, I was injecting meth daily and cooking meth. I thought it would be the life I always lived.
I've lived two lives in one lifetime.
When I was 21, I had my son. My plan was to be the best mom in the world. I didn't want him around drugs, but that's not how it turned out. I had convinced myself that if I didn't get high in front of him and I took care of his physical needs, I could be a mom and a drug addict. That's just not the truth, not for me. My dad and stepmom took custody of my son, and at that point I ended up getting in a lot of trouble with the law. I was released from jail early to go through treatment. Soon after treatment, I started using, and the cycle started again. I lost my son a second time and got in trouble with the law again. I was in active addiction for 17 years before I got sober. I graduated from drug court and have been sober since I was 29. My son is now 15, and I have a 7-year-old daughter. I'm married — my husband's spectacular.
Two and a half years ago, my sister died from a heroin-suboxone overdose. She was a devout Mormon, never smoked a cigarette, but was addicted to prescription pain medication. It was always prescribed by a doctor. They took her off it. The first time she tried heroin, she overdosed. And at the time, my baby brother, Stan, he was addicted to heroin as well. And being so devastated from losing my sister, I was willing to do whatever it took to help my brother.
My parents are so, so proud of me — because to see the person I used to be and the person I am today, it's just night and day; I'm not the same human being. I've lived two lives in one lifetime. I know that I've made an impact here in Utah. My goal is to change the world. Even if it's just the world I live in, I know I've done that.
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As part of STATUS PR, one of the top firms for personal publicity in Los Angeles, London and New York, we represent talent from some of the hottest and most respected traditional and digital spaces. Whether we work with fresh new faces or veterans in the industry, we don't wait for opportunities to come to us. We actively and creatively do our part to get our clients out to the public. We're strategic and we focus on branding, planning and precise execution. From arranging the perfect features and interviews in the best possible publications, to arranging a client's attendance at the right event— we carefully consider every decision and move forward strategically. PR is an active sport; we don't allow our clients celebrity status to go stale by missing the right opportunities. As a firm, we come together with not only our clients, but with their team of representatives—and strategize the best plans of action.
Music publicity involves propagating information in an appealing manner in order to increase public awareness and interest of one's material and image. Publicity is not advertising, although in a sense, they fulfill the same purpose. There are two differences, however. One- you cannot directly buy publicity, because in a sense, you earn it, and two- publicity establishes credibility. It entails establishing media (television, radio, social, publication, and new media) contacts, crisis and reputation management, creating media materials, representation, exposing an artist and a project to an audience, etc.
As a go-to firm for music public relations services that go above and beyond, our cutting-edge range of contacts throughout the music industry unquestionably benefit every new client who attaches their name to our team. With the ability and panache needed to appropriately represent the best of music from various genres—pop, rock, hip hop and country— STATUS Artist Development is tapped into the music and the culture that continues to change in the industry. In an industry where CD stores have been taken over by digital downloads and a touring and merch sales have become the cause for true success – STATUS Artist Development has studied each circumstance while embracing the changes and using them to each clients benefit. We work closely with every client to provide strategic PR support that helps them achieve their goals. Our consistently praised approaches to public relations do more than get you in the press—we build image, elevate status and expose you to the public eye in countless ways.
As the music industry and media landscapes continue to evolve in the digital era, there is a great emphasis on social media beyond basic activity. Whether it's creating compelling content for your Social Media, creating and evolving unique developmental strategies to help your numbers grow, or merely translating your brand into a social voice, we will facilitate and drive home the essence of the Social Media movement. Websites and platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube (and others) offer an opportunity for brands, advertisers, and public figures to connect and reach an unlimited digital rolodex of connections. These sites are exactly where your media contacts are spending their time, seeking that unique engagement only Social Media can reward. Social Media is no longer a convenience, it is a necessity in the digital world we all now live in.
Allow our Social Media professionals at STATUS Artist Development to help you understand, facilitate, and emerge in this online realm. You may choose to have our team completely take the wheel and drive home your message, or work hand in hand to develop a unique system that will help you attain your goals. Our established repertoire of Social Media relations and unyielding resolve are our clients' answer to success. As with all services provided at MLC Artist Development, having a social media expert as part of the in-house team will ensure the artist's brand and image are cohesive. In addition to a cohesive image, an artist's publicity and social media teams can streamline campaign timelines to ensure publicity, promotion, and social media are optimized for the maximum impact.
A key component to any artist development plan is the creation of branding materials. By having the graphic design materials developed in-house, an artist can ensure their overall brand and image is cohesive with those set by the publicist and the rest of their artist development team. Based on the artist's needs, our team can create: the official artist website, artist logo, album art, tour posters, social media banners, editorial or new music release promotion and teasers, etc.
STATUS Artist Development can work with the artist's team to leverage their likeness to secure brand partnerships and personal appearance fees. Whether the artist is interested in building a relationship with a fashion house, looking for paid social media opportunities, exploring tour sponsorships, or anything in between, our team will reach out and negotiate a potential brand partnership on the artist's behalf. As part of the artist's overall development team, our brand experts will have the best understanding of the artist's brand and only pursue opportunities that will fit the artist's image and demographic. This unique in-house advantage will ensure paid opportunities look organic rather than purely opportunistic.
Depending on the individual goals of the artist, we can develop a tailored radio campaign with either a national or regional focus. After reviewing the music, we would create a strategic campaign that targets the most appropriate outlets for your music release. We solicit these stations for airplay and feedback for the release in addition to pitching radio interviews in your touring markets when possible. Radio airplay is an essential element when promoting an album. Radio stations receive hundreds of CD's every month with few of them ever getting heard by the programmers, let alone getting any airplay. We use our relationships to break through the noise and actively solicit radio for airplay and feedback. Feedback from radio is provided to you in detailed reports and overall promotion strategy can change based on the feedback.
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The central lesson the author, Jack Welch, is trying to teach is how to 'win' in the business and corporate world from usually the point of view of a CEO or manager. Winning companies are the only things that count because losing has no value to anyone. As I read the book, I came to the reasoning that Welch's major lesson here is that a business and its CEO will win through candor. Candor had its own chapter but was also mentioned throughout the whole book, highlighting that candor takes part in every aspect he discussed in business in order to win. Candor is part of hiring, firing, Six Sigma, budgeting, leadership, and several other aspects. Most importantly though, it is essential to strategy—a significant topic discussed in this course.
Welch defines candor as "the biggest dirty little secret in business". He argues that candor has hurt firms, in which they could have been better off—and he is speaking internally, not the external competition. Candor leads to winning by: getting more people in the conversation which develops rich ideas; creating speed, meaning it is right there and then where you can debate quickly; and, it decreases costs such as those long boring meetings discussing known information (27).


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Arturo Massol-Deyá
Arturo A. Massol-Deyá is the executive director of Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas, a community-based group with 38 years of services in natural resources conservation, education, and sustainable development. A graduate of the public school system (1986) and the University of Puerto Rico (1990), he obtained his doctoral degree from the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University in 1994. Since then he has been a faculty member at the Department of Biology of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus where he established the Tropical Microbial Ecology Lab. He has been a principal investigator of projects on microbial ecology with emphasis on biological processes aimed at restoring contaminated environments. He study microbial diversity associated to plant communities and in extreme contaminated sites like at the former US Navy bombing range in Vieques with the use of molecular microbial ecology tools. After the direct impact of Hurricane Maria over Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, Dr. Massol-Deyá, together with Casa Pueblo, has led a community aid response that aims to change the energy landscape of a country dependent on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energy sources.
The energy insurrection #50%conSOL will drive a bottom up process towards energy self- sufficiency. Our approach will be centered in residential consumption, which represents 37% of the total energy demand in Puerto Rico. Energy independence will empower people and communities. In Adjuntas, the transformation of our energy landscape will consolidate with a stronger program to educate all sectors of the municipality with a robust public awareness and participation. In this process, we will develop a comprehensive community network at the local level with families, local businessman and general public with emphasis on those who benefited from or participated in Casa Pueblo's energy humanitarian response after hurricane María. Adjuntas will become a model and a reference community to build social power island-wide towards a fossil-fuel free future. Our social equation of change Science + Culture + Community will be implemented during the process. Interactions with nation-wide network and groups in the United States will be further promoted to broaden advocacy toward the Insurrección Energética. Casa Pueblo's cinema, the Radio Station, Bosque Escuela, our social media networks and our visitor center represent key infrastructure to build stronger educational and participatory initiatives. We will produce a video to teach people how to assess energy needs and to preliminary design an autonomous solar energy system, as well as radio clips for Radio Casa Pueblo and other community radio stations such as Radio Vieques. Our Bosque Escuela will play a key role in education for renewable energy options for public and private schools of the region.


NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 11, 2017) – Logan Mize continues to prove that he is one of the hottest artists to watch in country music. With cutting-edge successes throughout his career and strong fan feedback Mize will deliver a 12-track album aptly-titled Come Back Road on July 28. The strength of the songs on this album comes from A-list writers including Mize himself along with Josh Kear, Ross Copperman, Matraca Berg, The Warren Brothers, Rodney Clawson, Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne and many more. The full-length Big Yellow Dog Music release produced by Dan Agee is available for pre-sale HERE.
The first single, "Ain't Always Pretty" has already seen more than 20 million streams on Spotify where it is featured on the popular playlists 'Hot Country' and 'New Boots.' It is also included on Apple Music's notable 'The A-List: Country' and 'Cool Country' playlists. Launched by The Bobby Bones Show, the song is quickly becoming the most popular single ever released by the fast-rising performer, catapulting him to success. After being dropped from a major record label Mize is continuing to pave his own yellow-brick road to success.
"I've never put my voice behind a bigger or better group of songs. I would love to see them connect with a grand scale audience that loves them as much as I do," said Mize.


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I had glaucoma and cataract surgery on Monday, and my key board is still a bit fuzzy to me; so if you read any misspelled words in this blog, please blame it on blindness rather than ignorance. Unless someone calls for a date this week, we will ring the bell on our 2015-2016 hunting season next Saturday.
It has been an excellent season, quality wise. The cover in the woods has been outstanding, and our English Cockers have been a huge hit with all of our guests. Our occupancy rate is going to be down just a bit this year, and we can attribute every bit of that to the oil patch. I may be the only South Georgia farmer praying for higher oil prices even though we use a lot of gas and diesel here. The guys in the oil patch like to hunt, and we need and appreciate that business. We are still going to have a great year here, and our rebookings for next season are indicative of a bunch of happy hunters who visited Riverview this fall and winter.
I want to briefly change the subject to politics although we train our guides not to get into that subject with our guests. I was just reading where the current U.S. population is 323 million people. Is Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton the best two folks we can find to run for president out of 323 million people. Heck, I have visited with at least 1500 folks at Riverview this season who are more qualified than either of these two folks. Perhaps the best people just do not want to wallow in the pig pen of politics.
And another question about politics–can you believe how many people in this great nation identify themselves as socialists? I truly believe that this includes a lot of young people who do not even know what socialism really means. Maybe they think that it is like the social chairman of a fraternity or sorority that plans the parties and bands. We have fought wars to defeat this type of government ! Someone needs to help me understand the mentality of this country because I can no longer identify with the majority of the citizens. I do remember my dad saying this to me in his later years," Son, never, ever fail to recognize the dumbness of the average voting population". Pop, you were right!
I will do a final recap of the hunting season next week. For the moment, I want to thank those of you who visited and hunted with us this season. And for those of you who could not make it this year, you were missed!


SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA-Young Australians are the only age group intending to invest more in the next three months, indicating that age may not be a factor in financial savviness, the latest MLC Wealth Behaviour Survey reveals.
The quarterly survey of over 2,000 Australians found that while middle-aged Australians are broadly 'neutral' and older Australians are cutting back on investing, it's those aged between 18-29 who are planning to invest more. Not only this, but more young Australians (45 per cent) added to their savings than any other age group in the last three months.
Paul Carter, Executive General Manager, Superannuation and Investment Platforms suggests that while it's good to see young people focusing on finances, the all important superannuation focus is still missing.


Livestock producers are still adding up the totals when it comes to losses they suffered in last month's flooding but one analyst expects the losses won't likely curb cattle herd expansion.
As Nebraska continues to battle what appears to be the worst natural disaster in state history, stories are slowly starting to pour out of the region from farmers and ranchers impacted by the flood.
Cattle stranded in flooded parts of Nebraska getting hay via helicopter with help from the Air National Guard.
"The No. 1 reason slats go bad is age," said Andy Altenburg at the 2019 Missouri Pork Expo. After 20 years building and repairing hog and cattle barns, he's seen about every situation-gone-wrong you can imagine.
The hardest working employee on this farm does his job with a happy smile, a wagging tail and a huge heart. Patton, a two-legged blue heeler dog, takes his job running cattle seriously.
Companies are finding ways to analyze aerial images with computers and algorithms saving hours of time and helping farmers deal with field issues days if not weeks earlier.
A new survey of young and aspiring farmers shows 60% of that group, the next generation, are female.


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NGC 4380 é uma galáxia espiral (Sab) localizada na direcção da constelação de Virgo. Possui uma declinação de +10° 01' 00" e uma ascensão recta de 12 horas, 25 minutos e 22,1 segundos.

A galáxia NGC 4380 foi descoberta em 10 de Março de 1826 por John Herschel.

Ver também
Astronomia extragaláctica
Lista de galáxias
Lista de objectos NGC
New General Catalogue

Ligações externas

NGC 4380
Constelação de Virgo
Galáxias espirais

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Manu "Swish" Goswami is a serial entrepreneur who at 20 has already exited a company with a seven-figure payday. In this interview you will learn how "Swish" first discovered his competitive streak, the time an NBA player DM'd him to work for his venture capital firm and how he grew a business where the companies he controls now have over 10 million followers.
Swish Goswami is a 20 year old TEDx speaker, venture capitalist (at JB Fitzgerald Venture Capital founded by Brooklyn Nets PF Trevor Booker), LinkedIn Youth Editor (over 50K followers) UN Youth Ambassador and serial entrepreneur. After successfully building Technotronics Inc, a wearables startup, Swish is now the co-founder of Dunk Media, a sports media conglomerate heavily focused on social by establishing and growing a media network of over 10M followers hyper-focused on basketball. Swish has notably won Plan Canada's Top 20 under 20, the United Nation's Outstanding Youth Leadership award and Startup Canada's Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Swish has been recognized as "one of the world's most accomplished teenagers" by Future Sharks, "one of ten Gen Z experts to follow" by Forbes and the "Face and Future of Canadian Entrepreneurship" by UPS Canada.


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Wood-free paper is paper created exclusively from chemical pulp rather than mechanical pulp. Chemical pulp is normally made from pulpwood, but is not considered wood as most of the lignin is removed and separated from the cellulose fibers during processing, whereas mechanical pulp retains most of its wood components and can therefore still be described as wood.
This paperboard is characterized by air between the fibers that gives it a high thickness and makes it light for what concerns grammage without changing its stiffness and strength.


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Biografia
Nato nel Tennessee, figlio di un'insegnante elementare e di un designer paesaggista, dopo aver trascorso due anni nell'esercito, studia alla Southern Methodist University ed in seguito all'Università di Memphis; in quegli anni si avvicina al teatro.

Dopo aver preso parte a numerose produzioni off-Broadway e a film indipendenti, nel 1982 si fa notare nel film di fantascienza Blade Runner di Ridley Scott nel ruolo di J.F. Sebastian. Negli anni seguenti si è diviso tra cinema e televisione, partecipando a film come Una magnum per McQuade e Il giorno della luna nera. Per otto anni (1982-1990) ha lavorato nella sit-com Newhart, recitando al fianco di Bob Newhart.

Negli anni novanta recita in film come Le avventure di Rocketeer, A volte ritornano e Ancora vivo. Partecipa come guest star a molte serie televisive come Babylon 5, E.R. - Medici in prima linea, The Practice - Professione avvocati, Walker Texas Ranger, mentre tra il 2004 e il 2006 recita nella serie della HBO Deadwood.

Sempre per la televisione ha preso parte all'episodio Lui è il nostro "te" della serie televisiva Lost, dove interpretava il torturatore Oldham appartenente al Progetto DHARMA. Dal 2008 ha il ruolo ricorrente dello sceriffo Bud Dearborne nella serie vampiresca della HBO True Blood.

Filmografia parziale

Cinema
Il campo di cipolle (The Onion Field), regia di Harold Becker (1979)
La ragazza di Nashville (Coal  Miner's Daughter), regia di Michael Apted (1980)
Caccia selvaggia (Death Hunt), regia di Peter R. Hunt (1981)
Lontano dal passato (Raggedy Man), regia di Jack Fisk (1981)
Blade Runner, regia di Ridley Scott (1982)
La ballata di Gregorio Cortez (The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez), regia di Robert M. Young (1982)
La ballata della sedia elettrica (The Executioner Song), regia di Lawrence Schiller (1982)
Una magnum per McQuade (Lone Wolf McQuade), regia di Steve Carver (1983)
Nightmares - Incubi (Nightmares), regia di Joseph Sargent (1983)
Per piacere... non salvarmi più la vita (City Heat), regia di Richard Benjamin (1984)
Fletch - Un colpo da prima pagina (Fletch), regia di Michael Ritchie (1985)
Fuga disperata (The Defiant Ones), regia di David Lowell Rich (1986) - film TV
Il giorno della luna nera (Black Moon Rising), regia di Harley Cokeliss (1986)
Incatenato all'inferno (The Man Who Broke 1.000 Chains), regia di Daniel Mann (1987) - film TV
A volte ritornano (Sometimes They Come Back), regia di Tom McLoughlin (1991) - film TV
Le avventure di Rocketeer (The Rocketeer), regia di Joe Johnstone (1991)
Il migliore amico dell'uomo (Man's Best Friend), regia di John Lafia (1993)
Il cliente (The Client), regia di Joel Schumacher (1994)
Ancora vivo (Last Man Standing), regia di Walter Hill (1996)
L'ultimo guerriero (Forest Warrior), regia di Aaron Norris (1996)
George Wallace, regia di John Frankenheimer (1997)
Fuoco incrociato (Crossfire Trail), regia di Simon Wincer (2001) - film TV

Televisione
Newhart - serie TV, 59 episodi (1982-1990)
American Playhouse - serie TV, episodio 1x25 (1982)
Deadwood - serie TV, 36 episodi (2004-2006)
True Blood - serie TV, 38 episodi (2008-2012)
Ai confini della realtà (The Twilight Zone) – serie TV, episodio 3x09 (1988)
 X-Files (The X-Files) - serie TV, episodio 2x03 (1994)
 E.R. - Medici in prima linea (ER) – serie TV, episodio 3x07 (1996)
 Lost - serie TV, episodio 5x10 (2009)
 Mike & Molly - serie TV, 2 episodi (2011)

Doppiatori italiani
 Massimo Giuliani in Blade Runner
Roberto Del Giudice in X-Files
Oliviero Dinelli in E.R. - Medici in prima linea
 Giorgio Lopez in Ancora vivo - Last Man Standing
 Sergio Di Stefano in Deadwood (st. 1-2)
 Angelo Maggi in Deadwood (st. 3)
 Carlo Reali in True Blood

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Attori televisivi statunitensi
Attori teatrali statunitensi
Studenti dell'Università di Memphis


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From Worlds Apart, 2 Great V-Girls Collide
From Worlds Apart, Two Great V-Girls Collide
Eden is from Tel Aviv, Israel. Bozena is from the Czech Republic. Or, to put it in simpler terms, they live more than 1,600 miles apart. So, in 2004, when we flew those natural big-busters to the Costa del Sol area of Spain, we knew we had to receive them together for a discharge. The result: one of the highest tit-to-tit clips ever, a true raunchy masterpiece of boob sucking and mashing (and muff licking with tongue, likewise) between two buff, voluptuous brunettes who would by no means afresh be photographed in the same place at the same time. What's remarkable is the chemistry between two girls who had at not time met prior to that week in Spain.
That is kind of atypical cuz I can't think of Eden with out thinking about Bozena. And Kelly Kay from the Britain, and Crisa, Joana and Florri from Romania. They were all together that week, and I suppose for total voluptuousness, that six-girl shoot was our high-reaching ever. Just final year, Eden returned to modeling after a long hiatus, slimmed down to become a SCORE Cutie. Which makes this episode and the fotos even more treasured. We'll probably at no time watch those 2 girls jointly love this one more time, if we see them jointly at all.
Bozena, who would go on to do hardcore in Voluptuous Xtra #9 and Big-Boob Big-Uns, was sexually excited that complete week in Spain. She said us, "It's precious to pose outdoors in the attractive weather. I feel more relaxed and freer. I have posed outside several times at home, but I was worried about people seeing me and bothering me. No one can watch me here so my mind is at ease. When I'm in a different place, I feel like a different person."
Eden, who was studying at a university in London, Britain when we discovered her, had no such qualms about drawing attention. That babe told us this babe loves walking into a room and having each head turn her way, so she was a natural for modeling. But that babe had her mind on a more accademically profession. This babe hoped to be a genetic researcher.
Whatever's in Eden and Bozena's genes, they oughta clone it.
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The collection of a-ha singles "The Definitive Singles Collection 1984|2004" will be released in the UK on 11 April. Although similar, in cover design and track listing, to the European "The Singles 1984|2004" release, the track list varies slightly. In place of "Move To Memphis", "Minor Earth Major Sky" and "Forever Not Yours", the UK release includes "You Are The One" and the video for "Take On Me".


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The Most Astonishing and Bizarre Newly-Discovered Frogs
Posted by: Frank Indiviglio in Frogs February 14, 2014 Comments Off on The Most Astonishing and Bizarre Newly-Discovered Frogs 5634 Views
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Be it the discovery of a new species in the middle of NYC or the revelation that Mimic Poison Frogs are monogamous, frog enthusiasts are accustomed to surprises. But those revealed in the last few years have been especially interesting and unexpected…frogs with sheathed claws, tadpoles that feed upon their father's skin and on tree bark, bird-eating, bird-voiced and lungless frogs, fanged tadpoles and much, much more. Were I new to this field, I'd consider much of the following article as pure fantasy…but even after a lifetime of working with amphibians, I'm still shaking my head.
Note: please see the linked articles for further information on the frogs introduced here.
Fangs and Bird-Like Songs: Surprises from Vietnam
Several years ago, Dr. Jodi Rowley of the Australia Museum discovered a new species of gliding frog in the montane forests of southern Vietnam's Langbian Plateau. Exciting enough to be sure…until it was revealed that this frog's tadpoles sport hard, sharp, fang-like structures that arise from the lower jaw! The newly-described Vampire Flying Frog, Rhacophorus vampyrus, deposits eggs in water-filled tree hollows high above the ground, but as yet we know little about the natural history of its most unusual tadpoles.
Amazingly, Dr. Rowley also discovered another frog, the Quang's Treefrog, Gracixalus quangi, and it too is quite unique. In contrast to most frogs, males of this species issue forth with a series of clicks, whistles and chirps during the breeding season. Not only are the calls musical to the point of being "bird-like", they are also very complex, with no predictable sequence. You can listen to a recording of this denizen of northern Vietnam's high-altitude forests here.
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The Oddest Tadpole Diets Yet Discovered
Predatory, egg-eating and filter-feeding tadpoles, interesting as they may be, take a back seat to those of India's Brown Leaping Frog, Indirana semipalmata. Not only do they feed upon tree bark – the only tadpoles known to do so – but they live in trees. And they do not spend their time in water-filled tree hollows, but rather clinging to tree branches! Frequent rain showers apparently keep them from dehydrating.
Tadpoles of the recently discovered Fringe-Limbed Treefrog, Ecnomiohyla rabborum, take unusual feeding habits a step further. They favor the living skin of their male parent! This behavior has been documented in some caecilians (in which case the female provides "dinner"), but was not suspected to occur in frogs. Male Fringe-Limbed Treefrogs appear to guard their tree hollow nest sites even outside of the breeding season, a form of territoriality that is quite rare among amphibians. Much remains to be learned about this species which, as of now, is known only from a single mountainous rainforest in Coclé, central Panama.
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More Frog Oddities
Several other newly-described frogs have also caused herpetologists to re-think certain long-held beliefs. The Perret's Night Frog (Aslyloternus perreti), for example, has sharp claws that burst through the skin when needed! Claws (actually elongated toe bones) used in this manner are unknown in any other vertebrate. This largely unstudied frog appears confined to western Cameroon, Africa.
The Bornean Flat-Headed Frog (Barbouk kalimantensis) was discovered in 1978, but remained relatively forgotten thereafter (in the following 20 years, only 2 individuals were collected). Interest was revived recently, however, when a dissection revealed that it is the only known lungless frog. Limited in range to the Kapaus River basin in western Kalimantan, Borneo, it inhabits cold, swiftly-moving streams, and apparently relies upon cutaneous respiration.
Thailand's Khorat Big-Headed Frog (Limnonectes megastomias) is aquatic, and uses its long, sharp fangs to ambush birds and other frogs at the water's edge. These formidable weapons may also be used during battles over mates or territories, as males frequently bear missing toes and puncture wounds. As with most newly-discovered frogs, much of its natural history remains a mystery.
Skin Feeding Tadpoles (Fringe-Limbed Treefrog)
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Fanged, Bird-Eating Frog Found in Thailand
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L'Ystwyth est le fleuve qui arrose la ville d'Aberystwyth (dont le nom signifie embouchure de l'Ystwyth)   au centre-ouest du pays de Galles avant de se jeter dans la baie de Cardigan.

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Fleuve côtier au pays de Galles
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Scholar Tariq Ramadan, Harper's Rick MacArthur on Charlie Hebdo Attack & How the West Treats Muslims
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France is in a state of mourning after the deadly attack on the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. A massive manhunt is underway for the suspected gunmen, two French-born brothers of Algerian descent. Charlie Hebdo had come under threat and was firebombed in 2011 after publishing controversial caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. We begin our coverage of the Paris attack with a discussion between two guests: Tariq Ramadan, a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University and one of the most prominent Muslim intellectuals in Europe; and John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine, which in 2006 became one of the first U.S. publications to reprint the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked international protests.
Web ExclusiveJan 13, 2015"The Other Charlies": In Wake of Charlie Hebdo, Spotlight Grows on Press Freedom Attacks Worldwide
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NERMEEN SHAIKH: France has declared a day of mourning as a massive manhunt continues for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had published controversial caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. On Wednesday night, thousands of people took part in vigils to condemn the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Many held signs reading "Je Suis Charlie," or "I am Charlie." The attack killed several prominent cartoonists, including the magazine's editor Stéphane Charbonnier, who was better known as Charb. He was placed on al-Qaeda's most wanted list in 2013. The paper had come under threat before and was firebombed in 2011.
In a televised address to the nation, French President François Hollande said the "message of freedom" of those killed in the Charlie Hebdo shootings would live on.
PRESIDENT FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE: [translated] This shooting of extreme violence killed 12 people and injured several more. Greatly talented cartoonists, courageous journalists are dead. They left their mark on generations and generations of French people through their influence, through their insolence and through their rare independence. I want to tell them that we will continue to defend this message, this message of freedom, in their name. This cowardly attack also killed two police officers, the same who were responsible for protecting Charlie Hebdo and the editorial staff of this newspaper, who were threatened for years and who defended freedom of expression. These men and women died for the idea they had of France. That is to say, freedom. Today they are our heroes, and that is why I have decreed that tomorrow will be a day of national mourning. At 12:00, there will be a moment of contemplation across public services, and I invite all the population to take part in it. The flags will be half-mast for three days.
AMY GOODMAN: French authorities identified the gunmen as Chérif and Said Kouachi. Their whereabouts are unknown. An 18-year-old student named Hamyd Mourad turned himself in on Wednesday at a police station in northern France after he was publicly named as the third suspect. According to French TV reports, he told police he's innocent.
The two brothers were known to French intelligence services. In 2008, Chérif Kouachi was sentenced to three years in prison for his involvement in a network of sending volunteer fighters to Iraq to fight alongside al-Qaeda. At the time, Kouachi told the court he had been motivated to travel to Iraq by images of atrocities committed by U.S. troops in Abu Ghraib prison. There are reports the two brothers, who were born in Paris, returned from fighting in Syria last summer.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Tension in Paris heightened this morning when a policewoman was shot dead, but it's unclear if the shooting was linked to yesterday's attack. French officials said several mosques have also been attacked over the past day.
Earlier today, the remaining staff at Charlie Hebdo announced it will continue publishing on schedule. In a statement, they said, quote, "We have all decided, the journalists who survived and their ex-colleagues, that we are going to have a meeting tomorrow to publish the next Charlie Hebdo, because there is no way, even if they killed 10 of us, that the newspaper won't be out next week."
AMY GOODMAN: Today we spend the rest of the hour on the Charlie Hebdo attack. Later in the show we'll be joined by the legendary cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his graphic novel Maus, and the Lebanese-French academic Gilbert Achcar. We begin with the leading European Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University, author of a number of influential books on Islam and the West, including Western Muslims and the Future of Islam and In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad. Ramadan was named by Time magazine as one of the most important innovators of the 21st century. He's joining us from Doha, Qatar. And here in New York is John "Rick" MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine. In 2006, the magazine became one of the first U.S. publications to reprint the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked international protests.
We begin with Tariq Ramadan. Can you respond to what has taken place, the attack on the magazine and what has ensued over these last hours?
TARIQ RAMADAN: Look, thank you, first, for giving me the time to respond to what we are listening to these days. And I think, as I repeated, we have to condemn what is happening, and nothing can justify what happened in the killing of the cartoonists and now the police officer in France. What is important for us is to make it clear that we stand by our principles. And while I was debating, you know, the journalists in France about the cartoons and the way they were coming to or nurturing controversies about, you know, insulting the prophet, insulting Islam, I made it clear from the beginning this is your freedom to do so, I don't think it's good, I don't think it's an intelligent and decent way to deal with freedom of expression, but you need to be protected as to your right to do it. And I said to the Muslims, right away, in the States as well as everywhere, even in the Muslim-majority countries, that we need to get it right, that we are not going to convince our fellow human beings or fellow citizens that we are a religion of dignity and freedom and responsibility if we start by censorship. That's not the way it has to be, neither in the West nor in Muslim-majority countries.
Now the point is that we stick to our principles, and there is a second principle that I want to make clear, make it clear about here. It's really, for all of us, while we are shocked about what is happening in the West in the killing of cartoonists or innocent people, we should stand also by the same principles when it comes to things that are happening around the world in Muslim-majority countries, because the most important number of victims of violent extremism are Muslims in Muslim-majority countries. And very often we are—you know, you have a government saying we are not counting bodies, where they are dropping, you know, bombs on people, and then we are shocked by other things. So I think that our principles also should be, we stick to our principle, innocence and innocence and the dignity of any life, it's the same dignity, and there is no difference.
And then the third thing that I would add to this now is that we have to come together in the West as Western citizens and understand that it's not a Muslim business. We are not talking here about, you know, these are murderers, and it's only Islam that has—or Muslims who have to talk about this. We have to come together to understand that we have a common enemy, which is, of course, violent extremism, and all the reasons and causes that are upstream nurturing this, when it comes to supporting dictators, not giving the freedom for the people to find their way in the future. We need to be consistent as to our condemnation of the consequences in our analysis of the causes and the principles we stand for.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Rick MacArthur, you're the publisher of Harper's, and Harper's Magazine made the decision—it was one of the first publications to publish excerpts of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, and then also published, perhaps more controversially, the cartoons from the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, in 2006, and now. So, could you respond to what's happened now and how you feel this ought to be dealt with, this issue of freedom of speech versus what some construe as hate speech?
JOHN R. MacARTHUR: Well, this is a long-term fight. This goes on for centuries, remember? We did this with Rushdie. We excerpted The Satanic Verses. We took the heat. We led the counterattack, actually, after the fatwa was declared. And we've been fighting this for a long time at Harper's. We're not alone, but it's always a beleaguered minority that fights for freedom of expression, unfortunately.
And you hear, in the responses to a lot of well-meaning—by a lot of well-meaning people in the aftermath of this horrible, horrible murder, these qualifications: "Well, we agree with the right to do it, but we disagree with the way it was done." And as Art is going to say, I think, more articulately than I can, later, the provocation itself is part of the discussion. And if you can't have provocation, you can't have an authentic discussion. And the reason we published the images was so that Art Spiegelman could critique them in front of an audience, to explicate them and to give people a chance to draw their own conclusions in an intelligent way. If you can't show the images, you can't have the critique. You can't have the discussion. So, I'm a little uneasy with the response of some of my well-meaning liberal-minded colleagues who are condemning the killings, who are at the same time saying, "Well, but I wouldn't have done it that way." Well, how else could you do it? The New York Times today, in their main story, reproduced two images, two cover images from Charlie Hebdo, neither of which was one of the ones that offended the Muslims.
Now, second point I want to make, which is essential, is that to say—to back off and to say, "We don't want to offend Muslim sensibilities," is to generalize to the point of caricature of Muslims, as if all Muslims agreed that this was offensive or offensive enough to merit murdering people, when in fact a vast—the vast majority of Muslims disapprove of this, think it's the wrong thing to do, think it's the wrong response, as did a lot of Iranians at the time of the Rushdie crisis. I know a lot of Iranians. I'm very close to the Iranian world. And so, I am—I'm troubled by the response. And I feel reinforced when I talk to my friends, like Art, and the people who fight for these kinds of things over the long haul.
AMY GOODMAN: Tariq Ramadan, when we spoke yesterday, just as all this news was breaking, you said you knew, is that right, the editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo?
TARIQ RAMADAN: Yes. Yes, I knew him, and I debated him in, I think, two TV programs in France and were disagreeing. You know, I think that—
AMY GOODMAN: He was one of those killed.
TARIQ RAMADAN: Yes, and I think—I'm sad about this. And once again, you know, straightaway, I send my sympathy to the victims' families. And I think that this is something which is unacceptable. Now, once again, I think that the freedom of expression and the way we are dealing with this, it's a serious matter, and we cannot just, in any way, justify what was done. And my own take, you know, I was one of the first in the West taking the position by saying the fatwa against Salman Rushdie is a political fatwa, is not a religious fatwa, I am not supporting this. And I think that, really, we have to come to this understanding. And by the way, if you look at the Western Muslims today, the great, great, great majority of the Muslims today are quite clear on this: They are not supporting in any way even censorship. They are not going that way. So there is a trend, which is very important now.
What is problematic is that sometimes in even the statements, some of the people who are living in the West, they don't know the impact of what they are saying, not on Western Muslims only, but on Muslims around the world, that are now using the frustration of some Western Muslims, in fact, to instrumentalize Islam by saying, "Look, at the end of the day, make it as you want. Be whoever you want. Try to be invisible in the West. You are targeted by people." So I think that we should be very clear on even the double standards, that there are things that you can say about Muslims today that you cannot say about Jews. Let it be clear, what we can't say about Jews, which is anti-Semitism, it's completely wrong. Islamophobia is wrong. Don't have these double standards and just target the weak people. And this is why I said to the chief editor of Charlie Hebdo, "What you are doing are is"—you know, in French, I said, "This is the humor of the people who have no courage. You have a lack of courage in the way you are dealing, because you know who you are targeting." So my point is not your freedom of expression. It is the freedom that you have to target the people who are weak within your society, and I don't think that this is the right way of using your freedom of expression. Now you have the right to say whatever you want to say. Principles are principles, but decency and responsibility are also important in this discussion.
AMY GOODMAN: Rick MacArthur?
JOHN R. MacARTHUR: Yeah, well, the important thing to remind you, again, is that—well, I didn't say it at first, was that in Art Spiegelman's essay in Harper's Magazine, we made a point of including anti-Semitic caricatures, anti-Semitic imagery, so that Art could make the point that this all depends on whose ox is being gored. And he takes the position, uncomfortably, as a Jew who's written brilliantly about the Holocaust and about Auschwitz—
AMY GOODMAN: And he will speak for himself in one moment.
JOHN R. MacARTHUR: He'll speak for himself—that, you know, we are Catholic in this, in our approach to this, we're open-minded. And we understand that as journalists and as writers and as critics, we have to be able to take the worst offense ourselves in order to be able to justify on principle offenses committed against other people. My example is always the Nazis marching in Skokie, which to me is vastly worse, more offensive to my sensibilities, than these caricatures of the prophet. But I stood up, and so did a lot of other people, for the right of free expression, so that the Nazis would be permitted to march in Skokie, which is a place where a lot of Holocaust survivors live. That's how seriously people like Art and I take freedom of expression.
TARIQ RAMADAN: And can I ask you a question about that? If you look at the situation in the West, really, now, if you are, you know, a citizen, as I am a citizen, when you speak here about equal citizenship and equal rights for each, can you—can you feel the fact that there is a double standard, that there are things that we can say in the West and things we cannot say, and, for example, this is also part of the frustration? It's as if today whatever you want to say about Muslims, you can say.
Once again, I come to the principles. I will be the first to defend this right to say whatever you want to say. But the reaction, the emotional reaction, is a selective reaction. And it's not the same depending on what you are talking about. You are very—if you are targeted as anti-Semitic, it's over for you. But when you are having Islamophobic statements, that's fine. That's the normalization of this discourse. And the problem is that it's not only coming from the far-right parties. The problem that I have in the West now, wherever you are—look at the demonstrations that we had in Germany recently—is the normalization in the political discourse of Islamophobic statements. So don't you feel that there is a double standard? Don't you feel that we are talking about freedom of expression targeting the Muslims more than others? This is at least the feeling of Western Muslims, and you cannot just drop it and dismiss it as if it's not existing.
JOHN R. MacARTHUR: Well, I'm uncomfortable with the expression "the feeling of Western Muslims," because, again, I fear generalization, as opposed to what specific Muslims are saying, what specific newspapers are saying.
TARIQ RAMADAN: I'm talking about your feeling.
JOHN R. MacARTHUR: Yeah, yes, of course—yes, but of course there are double standards.
TARIQ RAMADAN: About your feeling. Talk about—tell me about your own feeling.
JOHN R. MacARTHUR: But of course there—but of course there are double standards, and all over the place, but that doesn't change the point that I'm trying to make, which is that we should be striving to defend the most extreme examples of satire and provocation as a matter of principle, and not apply a double standard. Of course, as I said, I was more offended—I'm more offended by Nazis marching in Skokie than I am by the Prophet Muhammad being satirized in Charlie Hebdo, but it doesn't change my commitment to defending both forms of provocation as a matter of principle. It doesn't mean I approve of them. And I'm just nervous about people starting to back and fill and say, "Look, if you had just done it in a nicer way, it would have been acceptable, or a less offensive way." Well, how do you—how do you address these questions?
TARIQ RAMADAN: You know—
JOHN R. MacARTHUR: You can't.
TARIQ RAMADAN: You know, at the end of the day, I agree with you on the principles. Now, we are living in pluralistic societies, and you cannot just—I understand your point: You cannot generalize on feeling, and you are right.
JOHN R. MacARTHUR: Yeah.
TARIQ RAMADAN: But still, if you say the only—just the statements that you made right now, saying, "Of course there are double standards," that's the "of course" of it which is problematic, that this is why we have to stand together. It's not—we are not going to live together only by principles and rights; we also have to deal with, you know, feelings, sense of belonging. And this has to be built on in a responsible way. I don't think it's just, "Oh, give me my rights. I should be able to say whatever I said." You know, you have sometimes the right to say silly things, but silly things in time of controversies, of tensions, are idiotic. It's not the way forward. So I would say, yes, the right of freedom of expression, but one of the—the right of freedom of expression should also be the responsible way of using it.
JOHN R. MacARTHUR: If I could—
TARIQ RAMADAN: And it's not—it's about human dignity. It's about living together.
JOHN R. MacARTHUR: If I could just quickly interrupt you, because I—to say at the end that there's a political question here which we're not dealing with, which I keep trying to deal with, while separating it from the principle of freedom of expression, and that is, yes, there's a huge Western, violent Western presence in the Middle East and in the Arab world that didn't exist 25 years ago. When we sent troops to Saudi Arabia before the first Gulf War, we tore something in the Muslim world. We outraged people. But this is a political question that you should also be talking about. The American Army sending troops to holy soil in Saudi Arabia is a different issue and a different provocation from a French magazine publishing satires of the Prophet Muhammad. And if people don't begin to look into—make the connections or discuss the political context of the Western presence in the Middle East, the military presence, I think we're going to have a hard time getting around this roadblock.
TARIQ RAMADAN: I really—I really agree with you on this. I think that this is essential. It's essential for us, as Westerners, and Western Muslims should be involved in this discussion. We cannot cut this discussion from the big picture. And the big picture is, yes, the way, for example, our Western governments are dealing with dictatorships, are dealing with Gulf states, and by being silent about freedom, about dignity, and even supporting regimes where there is no freedom of expression. And this is the right point to make, but this is part of the whole discussion. And you and me, as Westerners from the United States as well as from Europe, we have to be clear: We are not going to defeat anything which has to do with violent extremism, if we are not dealing with justice, with freedom for the people, with the real reform—reformist approach in the Muslim-majority countries. And what is happening today is exactly the opposite. We have the West supporting the worst dictatorships and coming to us, as Western Muslims, say, "OK, now apologize for the consequences of what is happening." So, we should stand to principles, but we cannot avoid talking about the big picture, and a political one is essential.
AMY GOODMAN: We have to leave, and also Rick MacArthur will be leaving us, Rick MacArthur who's publisher of Harper's Magazine, author of Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War, published the Danish cartoons as well as the excerpts of Satanic Verses when a fatwa was issued against Salman Rushdie. But he will be replaced by the man he invoked, Art Spiegelman, the famed Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, editor, comics advocate, best known for his graphic novel Maus. We will also be joined by Gilbert Achcar, the professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and Tariq Ramadan will stay with us. This is Democracy Now! We're back in a minute.
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Practice Relating to Rule 130. Transfer of Own Civilian Population into Occupied Territory
France's Penal Code (1992), as amended in 2010, states in its section on war crimes related to international armed conflict: "Participating in the transfer, directly or indirectly, by an occupying power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies … is punishable by life imprisonment."
France, Penal Code, 1992, as amended in 2010, Article 461-26.
The Report on the Practice of France states:
France is clearly opposed to the policy of fait accompli of the settlement colonies which modify the demographic structure of the territory. It is also opposed to expulsion measures directed at the inhabitants of the occupied territories which are equally contrary to the fourth Geneva Convention. In relation to these Israeli measures, the French representatives even talk of "banishment" and "exceptional gravity".
Report on the Practice of France, 1999, Chapter 5.7.


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